Program
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2-3, 2009
CHASS INTERDISCIPLINARY BUILDING SYMPOSIUM ROOM 1113
Schedule subject to change
Panel One, 2:30 PM
- Ashley Carruthers, Lecturer, Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University
Maria Tran, co-founder, Vietlish!
Vietlish! New Media of the Vietnamese Diaspora - Stephanie Rabia, Instructor, Communications, LaSalle College of Antipolo, Philippines
The Igorot in the World Wide Web: Exploring the Igorot Ethnic Identity Through the Communicative Act of Blogging - Chuong-Dai Vo, PhD candidate, Literature, UC San Diego
The Image as Truth: History-Making and Disorientation in Hong-An Truong’s
Adaptation Fever
DISCUSSANT: Toby Miller, Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
Panel Two, 4 PM
- Lily Ann Bolo Villaraza, PhD candidate, History, Northern Illinois University
Power Plays: The Seditious Sarsuwela genre and the Sedition Act of 1901 - Angela A. Mascarenas, PhD candidate, Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Performing Cultural Disruptions: audience reception and the performance of collective memory in Noel Alumit’s Mr. & Mrs. LaQuesta Go Dancing. - Ruth Pe Palileo, PhD candidate, Drama and Performance, Trinity College, Ireland
Performing an Aesthetics of Excess versus an Aesthetics of Poverty in the Philippines
DISCUSSANT: Christine Balance, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, UC Irvine
OPENING RECEPTION, 630 PM
CHASS INTERDISCIPLINARY COURTYARD
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2009
Panel Three, 9 AM
- Stephanie Santos, PhD candidate, Women’s Studies, UC Los Angeles
“Home away from home”: Filipino transnational communities of sentiment
Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD candidate, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Queer Zombies and Electric Dreams: Spectacle, Discipline, and Sexuality in the Philippines and United States
DISCUSSANT: Robert G. Diaz, Assistant Professor, English, Wayne State University
KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 10:30 AM
- Rolando Tolentino, Professor, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines, Diliman
LUNCH
Panel Four, 12:30 PM
- Vivian Wong, PhD candidate, Information Studies, UC Los Angeles
Documenting “home” in the diaspora: Memory, records, and identities in the archival imaginary - Emily Hue, PhD candidate, American Studies, New York University
Configuring Burmese Diaspora through San Minn’s Attraction: Burmese Visual Art in Exile on the Internet - Melissa Wall, Associate Professor, Journalism, California State University, Northridge
Treepon Kirdnak, Instructor, Journalism, Bangkok University
Siam Snapped: Uploading Thai Muslims onto Flickr
DISCUSSANT: Tamara Ho, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies/SEATRiP, UC Riverside
Panel Five, 1:45 PM
- Edwin Christian Jurriens, Lecturer, Indonesian Studies, University of New South Wales
Critique, compliance and community: Indonesian video art across generations - Xavier Hernandez, MA candidate, Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University
“Whose Face, Space, and Tube?: An Analysis of How Pilipino Cultural Night Performers Imagine Themselves and their Virtual Audience” - Sudarat Musikawong, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Siena College, NY
Representing Thai Labor Migrations: Immigrant Satellite Television